BREAKWATER LIVE HASH ROSIN
& LIVE HASH ROSIN CARTRIDGES

LIVE HASH ROSIN

Our Hash Rosin is an intensely fragrant and highly potent solventless cannabis extract that is derived from freshly harvested and frozen Breakwater Premium Flower. This solventless Hash Rosin is an extremely clean, pure, and flavorful hash experience – one that makes all of the time, effort, and care worth it.

To make Hash Rosin, we start by separating the trichome heads, which contain all of the cannabinoids and terpenes, from the flower using purified water and ice. Next, we remove all the water from the collected trichome heads by freeze drying them in a process called sublimation. The dried, extracted trichome heads are commonly referred to as "hash." We then fill specialized pouches with the refined dry hash and press out the cannabis oils using gentle heat and pressure, leaving behind the trichome heads' waxy cuticles. The resulting oil is pure Hash Rosin.

OUR HASH ROSIN PROCESS

Step 1: Solventless hash extraction targets the trichome heads since they are the desirable entities that contain all the cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids. Genetic selection is critical. We select strains for traits that make them desirable for whole plant, fresh frozen, solventless extraction. Not all of our strains will meet our criteria for solventless extraction. Plants are grown to their full potential to maximize their flavor and potency in the same production rooms as our Premium Flower. Click here to learn more about how we select strains for solventless extracts.

Step 2: We harvest the whole plant with solventless extraction in mind, taking extreme care while harvesting by bucking flowers from the stem and carefully breaking down larger flowers. The flower is handled gently and placed into a container to avoid damaging their delicate trichomes.

Step 3: After filling the container with harvested flower we place them into the freezer, effectively pausing the loss of terpenes.

Step 4: We empty the whole plant, fresh frozen cannabis buds into a large vessel containing an ice and water slurry and agitate them. The mixture quickly settles, and the water now contains the trichomes we’ve been working so diligently to preserve. We then collect the contents of the water with mesh catch bags of several different micron sizes. The purple/red colored water shown in the third image is the result of anthocyanins, a water soluble pigment present in Blue & Cream’s flowers. All purple colored cannabis leaves contain the anthocyanin pigment that causes the purple/red color.

Step 5: After collecting the ice water extract from the mesh bags, we dollop it onto parchment-lined trays, and place those trays into a freeze dryer to eliminate water content. This can take anywhere from 12-24 hours.

Step 6: Once the ice water extract is fully dried, we store it in the freezer until we are ready to further process it into hash rosin.

Step 7: To process hash into rosin, we place the dried ice water extract into nylon mesh pouches with a specific micron pore size. We sandwich the pouch between parchment paper, place it on a rosin press, and squish (yes, that’s the technical term) the pouch with gradually increasing pressure and a moderate heat source. The heat and pressure release the oil from inside the trichome heads, allowing it to flow through the mesh pouches and out onto the parchment paper, while the waxes that make up the trichome head sheath remain trapped inside the mesh pouch. The oily “rosin” remaining on the parchment is our final product.

Step 8: The hash rosin is collected and stored in bulk until we package it for sale.